In this section, humans appear for the first time and Wagner restarts his story to some extent. The music takes on a new tone, too, reflecting the powerful feelings that are taking up more and more space with great expression and emphasis.
Wagner's major family saga becomes an all-encompassing epic about power and love, war and peace, and the beneficial and disastrous effects of passions.
The story of the Ethiopian Princess Aida who falls in love with the Egyptian army officer Radames. Verdi's beloved opera about the price of war and hatred between nations returns in a grand new production.
The production by Richard Jones, which we remember from the 2017-2018 season, approaches this "indestructible title" with a respect for tradition, but taking its distance. The audience watches the stage hands shift scenery, perhaps in keeping with a Puccini who set aside raw verismo in order to preserve, as if wrapped in amber, a piece of reality.
With the production of Mozart’s final comic opera in Italian, the young French director Vincent Huguet and Daniel Barenboim set the stage for a new Da Ponte cycle at Staatsoper Unter den Linden.
On a loyal, desperate, and dangerous rescue mission deep within the contemporary dark labyrinth of the drug underworld, one can easily get caught up by its apparent magic.
Bruno Ravella's intense, beautiful and elegant production, in association with Opera National de Lorraine.
First seen at the Salzburg Festival in 2008, the production by Claus Guth explores these questions in depth; setting the action in a dark forest where the drama progresses as if in a dream.
The acclaimed production of the Magic Flute, inspired by silent films, by stage director Barrie Kosky.
Claus Guth tells the tale through the imagination and fears of Flavio, Rodelinda and Bertarido's son, in a production that respects the spirit of the music and the story immortalized in George Frideric Handel's masterly score.
A new production with conductor Paolo Carignani and director Richard Jones arrives at the Teatro Real in co-production with the Royal Opera House de Londres and the Chicago Lyric Opera. The cold December of Madrid will transport us to the Parisian winter, dyed of melancholy , to share Rodolfo and Mimì's truncated love.
This new production for Costa Rica's National Lyric Company explores the survival of love in times of traditional and social media.